Long time player here and as a hunter, I worked my way up to 262 ilvl and pretty proud of that, however the Mythics are a terrible experince and the PUG raids are even worse.
I started a Heroic Raid for Voidspire and after the first fight all you hear is “Kick the low DPS”.
Now yes I was a bit low and this was before Wednesdays patch, however Hunters are still not hitting hard in raids and its a real shame because someone who has Paid for a carry through instances gets a free ride.
”Kick low DPS” is a horrible thing to say especially when I know the fight and am doing the mechanics properly. The only downside is my DPS, I turn up gemmed, flasked and have food, I make sure I have everything.
I too was in the same situation as you and got kicked after 1st wipe despite 1% hp left, so I had like 45 minutes of buffs left trying to get into another HC raid mhm.
Make your own raid and not kick players for low DPS unfortunately as PUG RL’s have their own agency over their raid groups.
This probably sucks to hear, but a bad dps is probably the worst thing you can have in your group. I am fine with learning mechanics, I’m fine with people screwing up, but when people are below the tank I will just get rid of them. This is nothing personal, but runs go so much smoother if people do good dps, it means you don’t have to deal with adds being alive as long, it means you won’t have another set of mechanics, it means people don’t panic trying to hit a dps check.
I HATE the notion that ‘‘doing mechanics’’ is a good excuse for having low dps, good players do both.
Yea I get what you’re saying but it’s really not fair and needs to be addressed. Everyone keeps saying BM is buffed now but ti’s still bottom. How is a Hunter supposed to progress when he’s getting kicked for low DPS, it’s not fair. I guess there’s no other solution than to roll Paladin or something.
The issue isn’t primarily Blizzard, its moreso a community issue.
I get that people want a proper, smooth and fast sailing through the raids, especially when they’re new, damage might be in shortage and enrage timers might be hit, so kicking low dps is fine to a degree. All that would depend on the situation, doing tactics, strongly tuned, etc etc.. Nowadays everything is about having the most straight forward, fast, optimized runs for fast loot, not so much about ‘having fun’ which is why i would recommend which someone else also has done, is looking for a guild, everyone has off days or a boss where they mess up and don’t do that well. But a guild will most likely help you get more enjoyment out of raiding, and not feel pressured into having to pull out 110% of yourself, (yet you should always strive to do so) Having an offday in a guild? your guild will understand, if you have 1 boss where you might not perform as well as some others on a wipe, you might just be booted. But once again, that’s a community issue, and not so much a Blizzard issue in my eyes.
Now, as a BM main myself, i do know that BM is horribly tuned at the moment, in my own raid team, i’m amongst the lower half of DPS, yet still seeing that my parses can be pretty high up (in normal and heroic at least for now) which is on Blizzard’s end, we’re getting another 4% aura buff next week, wether this will be enough for Raid i don’t know, i’ve read in the hunter discord that for M+ it will push us over MM likely, yet for raid it might not do alot. So this is fully waiting on blizzard for that end.